Biography

After graduating from Cambridge University, I spent a year studying at Harvard University on a scholarship programme. I subsequently returned to Cambridge to write a Ph.D. In the final year of my studies, I worked as a temporary Lecturer at Warwick University before taking up a post at the University of Wales, Bangor in 2002. I moved to take up my current post as Lecturer in French at Swansea University in May 2007.

I am Publicity Officer for the Society for French Studies and Research and Resources Officer for the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes. I sit on the editorial board of the journal Studies in European Cinema and am an Associate Editor of the journal Romance Studies. With Dr Elaine Canning, I coordinate ARTT (Adaptation and Recreation: Textual Traffic), overseeing the cluster’s speaker series, forthcoming conference and related publications. 

I would welcome applications from doctoral candidates working on French cinema, any area/era of adaptation for radio, television or film or on nineteenth-century French literature. 

Publications  

Monographs and Edited Volumes 

Cross-Media Memories of Nineteenth-Century France. Co-authored monograph with Dr Andrew Watts. (Contracted, Cardiff: University of Wales Press)

Institutions and Power in Nineteenth-Century France. Co-edited with Dr David Evans. (Forthcoming, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011)

Emile Zola and the Artistry of Adaptation (Oxford: Legenda, 2009).

Haunting Presences: Ghosts in French Literature and Culture Co-edited with Dr David Evans. (University of Wales Press, 2009).

Pleasure and Pain in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture. Co-edited with Dr David Evans. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008). 

Articles and Chapters: 

‘Dirty Memories: Mirbeau, Buñuel and The Diary of a Chambermaid’, in Rob Stone and Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla (eds), The Companion to Luis Buñuel forthcoming (Oxford: Blackwell, 2012)

‘Memories in/of Thérèse Raquin: Emile Zola and Marcel Carné’, forthcoming in French Studies, April 2011.

‘Mythical Returns: Televising Thérèse Raquin’, forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 2011.

‘Visions and Re-visions: Zola, Cardinal and L’Œuvre’, accepted for edited volume Sublimely Visual, Susan Harrow (ed.).

‘Borrowed Identities:  Kassovitz and Bensalah’ in New Cinemas, vol. 4, no. 3, 2006.

‘The Ghost of the Author: Zola, Renoir and La Bête humaine' in Excavatio, vol. 21, 2006. 

'Racial Reflection: La Haine and the Art of Borrowing' (co-authored with Dr Ruth Doughty) in Studies in European Cinema, vol. 3, no. 2, 2006.

'Descartes and Lacan: Print and the Subject of Citation' in New Zealand Journal of French Studies, vol. 27, no. 1, May 2006. 

‘Voicing Difference’ (co-authored with Dr Laura Rorato) in Joy Charnley and Malcolm Pender (eds), Exercises in Translation (Peter Lang, 2006).

‘Hunt the Author: Vadim, Zola and La Curée’ in Studies in European Cinema, vol. 2, no. 1, June 2005.

'Scribbling Ghosts. The Spectral Texts and Textual Spectres of Émile Zola' in Julia Horn and Lynsey Russell-Watts (eds.), Possessions : Essays in French Literature, Cinema and Theory (Peter Lang, 2003). 

'Mimesis and Mimeticism: Mimicking Gods in the work of Émile Zola' in Hannah Thompson (ed.), New Approaches to Zola (The Émile Zola Society, 2003). 

‘The Haunted Mirrors of Émile Zola and Guy de Maupassant’, a note in the Bulletin of the Émile Zola Society, no. 26, October 2002.

Work in Progress:  

Zola and Television. Single-author monograph.

Grant capture:

2007 AHRC Research Leave Grant.

2006 British Academy Overseas Conference Grant.

2006 Society for French Studies Conference Organisation Grant.

1999-2002 AHRB Ph.D. Scholarship.

2001-2002 Herchel Smith Scholarship Harvard University